ohhh James has a crush

James is married

yes and has a kid as i understand it

nah kid hasn't been born yet

ah one of his recent videos he said "wife and kid"

she must be pregnant just recently

well, I don't know how much he's comfortable with the public knowing, so I'll just leave it at that

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totally

why is everyone suddenly having babies?

was there an actual increase, or did everyone I know just decide to have babies at the same time?

i just noticed the front desk receptionist at work is 8 months along bc she sits behind the desk all day and ive rarely if ever seen her not behind that desk

I still don't understand how these polls fluctuate so much

do people seriously change their political views every week?

different people polled?

that can't be it if the sample sizes are decent

I mean ya it's different people getting polled but the samples are supposed to be representative

I don't know. There have been quite a few things that have changed my perspective since getting involved in politics. I mean during the shut down I strongly approved of Trump. Now I actually wouldn't mind if he got impeached.

lol disapproval of Trump is gonna come strong from his left and right now more than before how wacky is that

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I got an email today from a local rep. It was a poll. I deleted it without a second thought.

These things can’t be accurate.

@Der Seeteufel - SD I guess, but for these polls to fluctuate that much people would have to be changing their entire belief system ever week

@Evan the ones that politicians send you aren't actually polls

it's just an excuse to beg for money from you

Yeah, but how’s the response any different. It’s pretty much the same format right. Maybe they’ll do a phone call instead.

I wonder if there’s a better way to poll

well, it's different because politicians just send out polls to people they already know support them

actual polling companies try to get a representative sample of likely voters based on demographics or whatever

I think that's how it works

That may be one way

I got this this from someone I have never heard of and from the Democratic Party.

probably got your email from somewhere and thought you were a likely supporter for whatever reason

They basically wanted to know if I supported the wall

I get "polls" from Trump all the time

It's actually all a lot faker than you think. Polls are used as much to shape opinions as they are used to determine opinions. It's classic bandwagon psychology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

your representative probably thought you're unlikely to support the wall, sent you a poll so you could say you don't, and then be like "oh haha what a coincidence I don't either you should give me money" @Evan

@Der Seeteufel - SD you’re probably right